Film producer and Labour Peer Lord (David) Puttnam brings his Inquiry into the Future of Television to Liverpool with a lively panel discussion event, open to the public, which he will chair. The event will also discuss interim findings from a new study looking into at how TV has contributed to political debate in Liverpool, carried out by researchers at the Hansard Society.
Speakers including Ken Loach, Phil Redmond CBE, Ruth Fox (Chair, Hansard Society) and Cat Lewis (Nine Lives Media and Nations & Regions rep for indie producers’ association Pact) will discuss whether TV reflects the lifestyles and opinions of people across the UK, or if it just a mouthpiece for the ‘London bubble’. To what extent does TV offer a space to talk politics or express the different lifestyles of people across all the regions of the UK?
The Inquiry event wants to hear from producers and writers committed to making TV more relevant to people wherever they live as well as from viewers themselves. It is one of seven events across the UK that will inform the Future for Public Service Television Inquiry which plans to report in June 2016.
The Inquiry, www.futureoftv.org.uk, which is based at the Media and Communications department, Goldsmiths, University of London, is set up to consider the nature, purpose and role of public service television today and into the future. It aims to address ways in which public service content can be most effectively nurtured taking into consideration a growing range of services, platforms and funding models, continuous technological development and audience fragmentation particularly amongst younger and diverse audiences.
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